Clip 1: On left at beginning of pan, the Jane Brabham, then (orange stripe) 67 Alexis, then Lotus 20/22, then the Repco Holden Sports of considerable WA fame (Rod Waller's car), while the car right at the end, mainly yellow, is the Macon imported from UK by Craig McAllister new. Although the chassis was built for F Ford (you can still see the bubble in the engine cover for the downdraught Weber) Craig had it built by Macon as a lightly stressed F2 instead. Builder Tony Houghton later emigrated to Australia, raced in Western Australia, built another Macon or two, ran a racing driving school, then took up yachting and was lost at sea off Queensland.

Clip 2. In the workshop. In the background is the Sutol 23, an upgraded Lotus 23b built of ex Lotus workers and imported into WA by immigrant Tod Hill who won two local Spprts Car Championships in it some years ago. Now restored. Other cars unclear to me.

Clip 3: reverse pan of top scene. Macon in the foregound.

Clip 4: Neil and Mandy with the ribbon. Pert backside of the Repco Holden Sports can be seen.

The WARM website uses drop-down menus to access data on the cars. There's some useful stuff there. The Lotus 20/22 had a long history in WA, including being fitted briefly with a 6 litre Buick engine (!).

Terry, a couple of comments if I may; Neil has 'reconstructed' the Byfield Ayres Repco Holden Sports using the original body skin. Other than that, what remained of the car when he found it was unusable.
Regarding the Macons; Noted WA driver and constructor of the 60s, Max Fletcher, actually built the cars, and certainly the McAllister one, while working for Tony Houghton. Max, being a useful sort of bloke, was also a 'works' driver along with Gabrielle Konig. I'm not sure what class the team was in, Formula Ford? but Max drove them in the UK and even down in South America. I believe the Macon 'factory' consisted of something the size of a two-car garage!

Yes, I believe the Macon operation in the UK was tiny, one of the numerous F Ford builders that sprang up like weeds when the class was introduced. I didn't know Max Fletcher was connected, but any number of Aussies found themselves niches in the UK in the 60s and later, guys like Bob Ilich, Dave Sullivan Jr from Perth alone, a helluva long list when you add them all up.

So many of those space-frame cars of the 50s and 60s had their chassis dissolve into rust. The Dave Sullivan Sr DSM-Holden of the 60s is now just a box of components and the original alloy body shell, as the tubular space frame rusted itself out of existence, not helped by Dave Sr using two of the main frame rails as coolant pipes.

I remember seeing Bob Biltoft with the Macon years ago at Wanneroo. I think he paid bugger-all for it and would take it out occasionally on a tuning day just for a run. Now look at it!

I've been given custody of about 1,000 colour slides of the Rolls-Royce Owners' Club of Western Australia, all taken circa 1990-1991. One box is of a motor museum, possibly not in WA, and in it was this cute little puppy:

In a case of what I presume to be nothing more sinister than a label from another exhibit being used for a similar exhibit, this car, at the National Motor Museum, is identified as a 1965 AC Shelby Cobra manufactured by Shelby-American Inc., California.

The registration on HPI identifies this vehicle as an AC (Electric), does anyone know anything about AC (Electric) there seems to be very little about them on the net ?

There will be a few more military vehicles coming in but I personally find them a nice distraction.
There is now a dedicated Williams hall (a la McLaren hall) and I think there are another 15 (!!) Williams cars being delivered this week to supplement the 20ish Williams cars already there, so it will only get bigger and better.

I think that the lack of messy aerodynamic add-ons is mainly responsible for that, we just don't see clean shapes any more. In that respect the cars from the last two or three years must be the worst ever as far as appearance is concerned, today's front wings are an affront to common decency, and I'm not even going to mention stepped noses.

Because Audi is owned by VW and VW at one time owned Cosworth and during that time a Jordan 191 was misplaced - possibly!

Cosworth apparently ended up with a 191 in lieu of payment (apparently making it an incredibly expensive car!).

Exactly - In the June edition of F1 Racing (wash your moth out!!) Eddie Jordan is asked where Schumacher's 191 is and he answers that the first car he tested is in the Donington Collection (it's in my pics above)The one he Schumi drove at Spa ended up with Audi, as Jordan couldn't pay their engine bills to Cosworth, so it ended up with Cosworth and then Audi bought Cosworth.I can't take credit for knowing that beforehand though so good work Peter.

I have a photo, but not just online yet.... For those interested, the Milli-Union is currently on display at the M-Shed in Bristol as part of the Urban Sport display until September. And they also have an F1 powerboat. Flimsy looking thing, wouldn't have withstood the harbour sides very well......

Missed the Milli-Union but was surprised to find that the first 'Bristol' personal transport was not built by Bristol Cars in 1947 but by the Bristol Motor Company in 1902. Above a rear wheel from a1906 Bristol 16/20 which is currently on view, partially hidden by a replica horse, at the M-Shed in Bristol.